I've probably had Crohn's disease since high school - which was in the early 90s; I never went to the doctor because I never had major symptoms until I was much older. I did have mind numbing fatigue and random joint pains through college, but I chalked it up to knee surgery I'd had when I was 14. Even if it was in the wrong leg...I mean I must have been walking funny to favor the injured side. It wasn't until I was 26, working more than full time hours in the corporate world, that I had blood in a bowel movement. Ok, if I'm real about it the toilet bowl looked like it was full of kool aid. It was a lot of blood and it was scary. I talked to a friend of mine at work who I knew had some digestive problems and asked her what to do. She had seen a great gastroenterologist at Northwestern and told me to go see him. "Do you really think I need to go? I'm going on vacation in a few weeks." This was my logic in response to filling a toilet with
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